An improved information management system is described herein that provides on-demand or live mount access to virtual machine data in a secondary copy format. For example, instead of restoring all of the virtual machine data in the secondary copy format to a virtual disk that is then mounted to a virtual machine, the improved information management system can, in response to request to access virtual machine data in a secondary copy format, create a virtual disk having a universal network component (UNC) path and create a virtual machine configured to access data via the UNC path. Once created and booted, the administrator or user can attempt to access the desired virtual machine data via the virtual machine.

In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include the steps of providing a computing device associated with a plurality of user; receiving output data transmitted from a target unit; analyzing the output data; transmitting a plurality of interaction commands; transmitting the plurality of interaction commands to an application or operating system; determining a plurality of identifying key words; dynamically determining a configuration screen image based on an identification of the plurality of identifying key words associated with the plurality of graphical user interface displays; automatically selecting a configuration setting associated with the plurality of interactive image elements based on the configurations screen image; and executing a plurality of ameliorative actions associated with the configuration setting.

Power control and decoupling capacitance arrangements for integrated circuit devices are discussed herein. In one example, an assembly includes a first circuit assembly comprising a first circuit board coupled to an integrated circuit device, wherein the first circuit board is coupled to first surface of a system circuit board. The assembly also includes a second circuit assembly comprising a second circuit board having one or more voltage adjustment units configured to supply at least one input voltage to the integrated circuit device, wherein the second circuit board is coupled to a second surface of the system circuit board and positioned at least partially under a footprint of the integrated circuit device with respect to the system circuit board.

Method and apparatus are provided for managing a distrusted system. The method comprises receiving, by a cluster management agent, a cluster specification update that includes a container image manifest content that describes an infrastructure of the distributed system; converting, by a runtime container engine of the cluster management agent, the container image manifest content into an operating system bootloader consumable disk image for rebooting one or more nodes in the distributed system; and initiating, by the cluster management agent, a system reboot using the operating system bootloader consumable disk image for a node in the distributed system to update the node to be in compliance with the cluster specification update. The cluster specification update is received via a local API of the cluster management agent in the absence of internet access or via a communication channel through an internet connection with the cluster management agent.

In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may boot an operating system; after booting the operating system, determine that a solid state drive has been hot added to a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) port; suppress discovery of the solid state drive by the operating system; determine a policy associated with the solid state drive; determine that a current configuration associated with the solid state drive does not match a configuration associated with the policy associated with the solid state drive; determine that the configuration associated with the policy can be applied to the solid state drive; apply the configuration associated with the policy to the solid state drive without utilizing the operating system; and inform the operating system that the solid state drive has been communicatively coupled to at least one processor via a PCIe root complex.

An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to determine, utilizing a firmware-based agent running in firmware, a boot flag status during a boot process of the processing device. The processing device is also configured to execute, responsive to the boot flag status being a first value, a system update handler of the firmware-based agent configured for provisioning of a secured runtime operating system on the processing device, wherein the provisioning comprises digitally signing an image of the secured runtime operating system utilizing a hardware-based root of trust key. The processing device is further configured to execute, responsive to the boot flag status being a second value, a secured operating system boot handler of the firmware-based agent configured for validating and loading secured runtime operating system, wherein the validation comprises performing attestation of a signature of the image of the secured runtime operating system utilizing the hardware-based root of trust key.

Systems and methods for generating, distributing, and using performance mode BIOS configurations are disclosed. Each performance mode BIOS configuration can be a unique set of BIOS setting values that have been established to optimize a particular performance parameter or set of performance parameters, such as boot speed or operating system installation speed. Based on a given hardware configuration and/or set of performance parameters, one or more performance mode BIOS configurations can be packaged and transferred to a memory of a BMC in the form of one or more configuration payloads. The BIOS Setup Utility can display all configuration payloads, such as listed by the type of performance mode (e.g., “Boot Speed Performance Mode” and “OS Installation Performance Mode”), that are available in the BMC memory and allow a user to overwrite the memory containing the current BIOS configuration with a selected configuration payload.

Disclosed are various examples of provisioning a data processing unit (DPU) management operating system (OS). A management hypervisor installer executed on a host device launches or causes a server component to provide a management operating system (OS)installer image at a particular URI accessible over a network internal to the host device. A baseboard management controller (BMC) transfers the DPU management OS installer image to the DPU device. A volatile memory based virtual disk is created using the DPU management OS installer image. The DPU device is booted to a DPU management OS installer on the volatile memory based virtual disk. The DPU management OS installer installs a DPU management operating system to a nonvolatile memory of the DPU device on reboot of the DPU device.

An information handling system may determine a personality flag value during a boot process and execute, responsive to detecting that the information handling system entered a secure environment and based on the personality flag value, a system update handler configured for discovering and connecting to a control plane. The system may also provision a secure ephemeral operating system, including receiving an image of the secure ephemeral operating system from the control plane responsive to a secure profile and validating the image prior to loading the secure ephemeral operating system to a random access memory.

A computing device includes a hardware switch that is activated when a primary Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of a first BIOS chip of the device fails to load an Operating System (OS) image from an OS partition of a hard drive. The switch passes control to a backup BIOS that executes from a backup BIOS chip. The backup BIOS loads a recovery image from BIOS recovery partition of the hard drive, which causes a reflash application to execute from the recovery image. Reflash application obtains a recovery BIOS from the BIOS recovery partition of the hard drive, reflashes/writes the recovery BIOS onto the first BIOS chip and reboots the device. Following reboot of the device, recovery BIOS loads the OS image from the OS partition, and recovery BIOS becomes the primary BIOS on the first BIOS chip of the device.